Struck Modernism (Figure XA)
(together with U5)
Concert
Live improvisation on the sculpture "Figure X A" (1975) by Henri Presset with gloves, mallets, superballs, sticks and stones. Recorded on the campus of ETH Zurich (Hönggerberg), Switzerland.
Dates: 1.10.2019 (Vivian Wang, Kaspar König, Ludwig Berger, U5 and Florian Dombois), 1.10.2020 (Saadet Türköz, Ludwig Berger, U5, Matthew Skjonsberg and Florian Dombois), 1.10.2021 (Violeta Burckhardt, Khensani de Klerk, Ludwig Berger, U5 and Florian Dombois)
2019-2021
Four sound artists and musicians gather on 1st of October for playing together and making "Figure XA" (1975) sing, an extrodinary rich sounding sculpture. The striking of the art work happens live and explores the opportunities, that the format of a concert with audience can provide to the project Struck Modernism by Florian Dombois.
First edition published as Struck Modernism: Figure XA, dinzu artefacts 2020, available on Bandcamp.
Video documentation by U5 of the first edition on Vimeo.
